There are 425 AF points in total, and 2.16M PDAF pixels, up from 0.5M on the X-T2. The Fuji XT3 is one of the few cameras on the market to offer 100% coverage of the phase detection AF area, allowing you literally focus anywhere that you want. The ability to use the touchscreen becomes very welcome when you realise that you can literally touch anywhere within the frame to focus. Again, it's a little tricky to get it right at first, but persevere and it soon becomes more natural, if not quite second nature. If you prefer, you can turn off this functionality altogether, but it’s much quicker than using the buttons to set the point.įurthermore, you can actually change the focus point whilst holding the camera up to your eye by dragging across the touchscreen with your right thumb, with the option to use the whole screen or one of six different areas. On the right-hand side of the screen you’ll see a small icon, which if you press it allows you to choose between using the screen to choose the AF area, autofocus, or to have it both autofocus and then take the picture. The main difference is that the 3-inch 1040K-dot LCD screen on the X-T3 is now touch-sensitive, which means you can use it to set the AF point or even fire the shutter release if you want when shooting stills or pull focus when recording video. On the rear, the Fujifilm X-T3 has exactly the same high-resolution 3 inch LCD monitor as the X-T2, which offers 100% scene coverage and 1.04 million dots, and can be usefully tilted up and down by about 90 degrees when in landscape mode and upward when shooting in portrait mode by releasing a small switch on the edge of the screen. Oh, and not to forget to mention that the X-T3 continues to offer dual-memory card slots, something that some recent mirrorless cameras have come in for a lot of stick for not offering. We do like the effective IBIS system offered by the X-H1, but it does make that particular camera quite a lot bigger than the X-T series, and quite a lot more expensive too.
The key difference between them is worthy of note, though - the X-H1 offers in-body image stabilisation (IBIS), whereas the new X-T3 doesn't, just like its predecessor. Speaking of which, the new XT3 in many ways equals or even out-performs its bigger, more expensive sibling. The terminal port cover can now be completely removed from the camera body, a feature implemented at the request of videographers, whilst quite a lot of the main buttons and controls on the camera have been made slightly larger than on the X-T2, bringing this new version more in line with the flagship X-H1. Attention to detail or what?!Ī completely new and very welcome addition is the 3.5mm headphone jack on the left-hand side of the body, which on the X-T2 was only available via fitting the optional battery grip. The Fujifilm XT3 now uses a 4 piece construction – top, front, rear and bottom - rather than 3 piece as on the X-T2, whilst the diopter control has been made lockable and the EV compensation dial has been moved further into the middle of the top panel, both changes made to stop those controls from being accidentally knocked out of position. Having said that, there are a few fairly significant changes. This is in no way a criticism of the latest model - we, and many other photographers, loved the handling of the X-T2, so if there's little to improve, why tinker with the design? If it ain't broke, don't fix it, seems to have been the strict design rule that Fuji's engineers have adhered too, so two years after the X-T2 comes its doppelganger, the X-T3. From a handling point of view, the end result is a faster, more capable camera that's the best X-series model that we've used to date.
The new Fujifilm X-T3 looks almost exactly the same as its popular predecessor, the logically named X-T2, but inside it's all change as Fujifilm have upgraded virtually all of its core components.
The Fujifilm XT3 is available now in black or silver and costs £1349 / $1599 body only, or £1699 / $1899 with the XF 18-55mm kit lens. The X-T3 also offers 4K/60P 4:2:2 10bit video recording, 30fps continuous shooting with the electronic shutter or 11fps with the mechanical shutter, 425 auto-focus points with 100% coverage of the phase detection AF area, more accurate and faster Eye Detect AF, the ability to focus down to -3EV, and support for dual SD memory cards. The Fujifilm X-T3 is a mirrorless camera featuring a 26 megapixel X-Trans BSI CMOS 4 APS-C sensor, high-performance X-Processor 4 image processing engine, 3.69m dot resolution electronic viewfinder, and a three-direction tilting 1.04m dot LCD touchscreen and a robust weather-resistant magnesium alloy body.
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